FACULTY HONORED FOR
OUTSTANDING TEACHING
Eight faculty members were recognized during the 2011 Honors Day Convocation for excellence in teaching. Photo: iStockphoto.com/sweetym
A&T PD ADDS T3 to Green Fleet
The Department of Police and Public Safety has purchased two T3 electric standup vehicles to increase the department's visibility and provide a safer campus environment.
Health plan annual enrollment
The 2011-2012 annual enrollment period for the State Health Plan is currently underway. Enrollment for the benefit year that begins July 1 ends June 8.
The State Health Plan will continue the plan design and rates used during the 2010-2011 benefit year. Coverage for all faculty and staff enrolled in the State Health Plan will automatically default to the 70/30 plan. Employees and dependents (if covered) who are non-smokers and meet the BMI (Body Mass Index) provisions and wish to remain in the 80/20 plan must sign-on to the State Health Plan online enrollment system to attest that they are non-smokers and meet the required BMI provisions in order to be eligible to re-enroll in the 80/20 plan. If no action is taken, coverage will remain at the 70/30 level.
Enrollment and changes must be made online via the HR InTouch enrollment website, http://ncat.hrintouch.com. Paper allocations cannot be accepted. Got questions? Contact the Benefits Office, (336) 334-7226.
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Mike Davis' Planet of Slums has been selected as A&T's 2011-2012 Text in Community. The author, an urban theorist and professor at the University of California, Riverside, takes a global approach to documenting the astonishing depth of squalid poverty that dominates the lives of the planet's increasingly urban population, detailing poor urban communities from Cape Town and Caracas to Casablanca and Khartoum. Davis argues health, justice and social issues associated with gargantuan slums (the largest, in Mexico City, has an estimated population of four million) get overlooked in world politics. While Davis paints a bleak picture of the upward trend in urbanization, he also maintains a stark outlook for slum-dwellers' futures.
Bookstore, C-Store summer hours
Effective May 9, the University Bookstore is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and the Aggie C-Store will be open Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The bookstore will close for inventory at 12 p.m. Thursday, June 30, and will reopen at 8 a.m., Tuesday, July 5. The Aggie C-Store will be closed for inventory June 29-July 4 and will reopen at 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 5.
Road closure
The intersection of Benbow Road and Mitchell Drive will be closed through May 23 for street repairs. There will be underground digging by Bluford Library off Laurel Street through May 14. Refer questions to Ricky Richmond, (336) 285-4583.
Parking Services updates
The following locations have been identified as traffic and parking hazards, so be mindful not to park vehicles in the following locations unless there is designated parking:
Williams Cafeteria/Alma Morrow Circle. A vehicle is considered legally parked if there is a valid permit displayed and the vehicle is positioned between two parallel white lines. This includes the travel lane (the horseshoe shaped area looping traffic thru Alma Morrow Circle) and service drive areas.
Aggie Stadium. Due to construction, the Aggie Shuttle is no longer entering the stadium parking lot to pick up patrons. The shuttle stop location has been moved to the north side of Barnes Hall immediately after the intersection of Sullivan Street and C. Drew Drive. A sign has been posted to indicate the location of the stop.
Find N.C. A&T's Shuttle Services on Twitter at twitter@NCATSHUTTLE.
Aggie-Mart
Effective July 1, the Aggie-Mart online electronic approval ordering system will replace the Banner Finance purchasing module to become the University's purchasing system. For more information, call (336) 334-7555 or email aggiemartsupport@ncat.edu.
Geomatics moving
Effective this fall, the Geomatics Program, which started in 2006 in the College of Engineering, will move to the School of Technology. It is the first and only four-year program in North Carolina to serve the surveying and geospatial community. For more information about the program, contact Robert Pyle, pyler@ncat.edu, or Peggy Fersner, fersner@ncat.edu, for additional information.
Employee discount
The Athletics Department is pleased to announce a special discount for A&T faculty and staff for the upcoming football season. Tickets are $135 for five home games in the reserved section. This special offer ends Friday, Aug. 1.
Employees may purchase up to four tickets with the option of 12-month payroll deduction. For tickets, go to www.ncataggies.com and download the employee authorization form. Send the form to Catherine Simmons in the Athletics Department via email, catrat@ncat.edu, or fax, (336) 334-7272. For more information call (336) 334-7686.
Proctors needed
Proctors are needed for Hampton Elementary School’s EOG testing, May 17-19. Proctoring is a great way for A&T to support Hampton, the university’s partner in education, and build relationships for future partnership initiatives.
Hampton is located off South English Street, about five minutes from campus. Training is required and takes about 30 minutes. Prospective volunteers should contact the school principal, David Jarmon, at (336) 370-8220 and Patricia Whitfield, interim associate dean in the School of Education and chair of community engagement for the Hampton Elementary-N.C. A&T University Partnership, at betheap@ncat.edu.
Collapse of state funds
State fund budgets will be collapsed effective Tuesday, May 17. Procurement card purchases should not be made on state funds after this date.
The collapse process is applicable to state funds only; hence, overhead receipts, contracts and grants, and auxiliary fund budgets are not affected. State fund travel budgets (code 73100), maintenance budget (74400) and communications budget (73200) will not be collapsed.
All State fund requisitions must be on the system no later than close of business May 17. The requisitioning process will be disabled on that date. Contact the Purchasing Department at (336) 334-7555 with any questions.
North Carolina A&T State University's proposal to work with Henan Polytechnic University in Henan Province, China, to develop a global studies course for the fall and spring semesters of 2011-2012 has been accepted. A&T is one of three recipients of the UNC-China Technology Learning Grants available through UNC General Administration.
Jim Crawford, from the Department of History, is the principle investigator and coordinator of the project. Mary Lewis, from Sociology and Social Work, will travel to China to work with faculty from Henan Polytechnic University in constructing a global studies course. Hong Wang, from the School of Business, and Michael Roberto, from History, will be involved in future course offerings, while Minnie Battle Mayes, director of international programs, has offered guidance and support.
Students in the course will interact directly with students from China through teleconferencing and other distance learning tools to master intercultural communication and collaboration skills. The project aims to expand to include courses from other departments at A&T.
Brandon Johnson and Jason Moore, academic counselors in the Center for Academic Excellence, presented "Effective Strategies for the Retention of African-American Males in Higher Education" at the 2011 College Board Dream Deferred: The Future of African-American Education conference in Philadelphia, Pa., on April 12.
Pedro Nino, director of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), has been appointed as a lead reviewer for ACTFL/NCATE. In this capacity, Nino is responsible for submitting the final program review report in compliance with national accreditation standards. Additionally, he makes sure that any findings from the programs under review are able to demonstrate their evidence-based commitment to a continuous performance in planning, assessment and evaluation.
Schenita Davis Randolph, a clinical associate professor in the School of Nursing, has earned the designation Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) from the National League for Nursing. Randolph has a bachelor's degree in nursing from N.C. A&T and a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include health disparities and HIV and AIDS among the African American population.
Shengmin Sang, lead scientist for functional foods at A&T's Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies at the North Carolina Research Campus, recently attended the annual conference of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) in Orlando, Fla. While there, Sang mentored eight students and gave a poster presentation of his recent studies of a novel compound that he discovered in wheat bran that appears to be effective in preventing colon cancer. During conference proceedings, the AACR presented Sang with one of its Minority-Serving Institution Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research Awards.
MAY 13
Financial Aid (summer and
fall 2011) canceled for students not
maintaining SAP
MAY 13
Pre, Dual and First Summer Sessions'
deadline for on-campus registration in
academic departments via Web for
students without paying late fee
MAY 13 | 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tabletop Emergency Exercise Drill
Location: Alumni-Foundation Event Center,
Ballroom 103
MAY 16
Classes begin, late registration begins, and
last day to cancel housing for refund
consideration for Pre, Dual and First
Summer Sessions
MAY 16-JUNE 21
First Summer Session
MAY 16-JULY 29
Dual Summer Session
MAY 17
Last day to add/audit a course and last
day to submit applications for graduation
for Pre, Dual and First Summer Sessions
MAY 17
Late registration ends and last day to
drop and receive financial credit for
Dual and First Summer Sessions
JUNE 8
Last day to enroll or change coverage
in State Health Plan
JUNE 23-JULY 7
Summer Intersession
JUNE 23-JULY 29
Second Summer Session
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